making windows 7 like xp

i wontder if you can help me my mate is a pain he wants all the secruty features of windows 7 but he wants me to make it look and react like xp so far i have the gui but im stuck on the rest theres a program for no bread crumbs

Disable Breadcrumbs in Windows 7 or Vista, Enable in XP | Smart Tech Tips
but i can not get it to work in windows 7 x64 so i have no idea how to do it plus other xp features i hope someone can help me with this.

me personaly would leave it as it is.

Try to go to the control panel and search for "folder options" then in that there are a lot of opins to choose from, see if any of those are what you need...

Just tell him to shut it and use Windows XP. Or relearn the new OS.... *sigh* Some people...

What is sad is Windows 7 is actually easier to learn and use than XP. Yes XP is familiar, and it is relatively easy to use, its also easy to mess up. I think that is what makes 7 so much better, a more controlled environment out of the box.

Here's Microsofts XP emulator for Windows 7 users.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/vir.../download.aspx

i wonder that myself sometimes but he is very hard to convince, sometimes i wish i dont bother helping him. yep i have xp mode already shown him that he wont have it some people are hard to please if i could get that no breadcrumbs program to work he might go over to it but he wont take no for a an answer.

Actually, I've had Windows 7 for a month now. I've gotten to know many of its features, and frankly do not appreciate them. I came to this forum looking for answers on if there actually are ways to make Windows 7 work like XP, such as pruning unnecessary features or functions which I am otherwise saddled with. I ask this not as someone afraid of the new or clinging to the old. I simply do not like the file system management and interactions therewith, or many of the other basic alterations such as the changes to the task bar.

I get that many of these things are to either aid me or be pleasing to the aestetic, but by and large they are a hinderance rather than a help (and I have long considered aestetic importance a distant second to functionality). Any advice on how to modify the system so that it can function as a more simplified OS with the virtue of the greater depth of security would be appreciated.